Nidan said:
TheRealMafoo said:
| Nidan said
Yes, and the 2 saws are different, one uses steel with 10x more silicon, while the other uses lower grade steel but a lot more of it and is heavier but they both still are a 10" saw.
There is no reason why middleware developers or engineer develops CANNOT make optimizations of each system in the same way that Intel has MMX, HT optimisation or Amd 3Dnow optimisations. The issue is that currently, developers are still looking at ways of getting the best performance out of both systems
Middleware does just that " it allows the developers to make games independant of if it is an Xbox or a PS.
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lol. Middleware can not manufacture performance. If that was the case, we would never need new hardware, just better software.
If someone writes a game that, fully optimized, takes advantage of all the floating point power of the PS3, there is nothing in the world that can be done with the 360 to duplicate it. It's imposable.
If someone were to write a game that was better because of that floating point math, that game would be less of a game if it was multi-plat.
Sorry, but the diferences between the PS3 and the 360 are greater then diferent manufatures of the same tools. They have very diferent arcatecturs, that lend themselves to be very good at diferent things.
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No, what i am saying is this. using the pre-processor directive, they can have optimisations in the code like this
Somelighting_technique(){
#IF PS3
Do some lighting technique using PS3 capabilities
#ENDIF
#IF XBOX360
Do the same lighting technique but using the XBOX 360 Capabilities
#ENDIF
}
Now apply this to some marker or object in the world builder and BAM the artists and designers no nothing about how this technique works, they apply it in the same method in their builder, and at compile time they choose either the XBox or PS3.
This technique can use the best known capabilities for each system, but still leave room for one to outperform the other.
Now, lets say we find a different method to do the same lighting technique on the PS3 which makes it run better, then they update the technique, but the calls remain the same, the xbox remains the same, but the ps3 uses the optimised functionility
Somelighting_technique(){
#IF PS3
Do some lighting technique using PS3 capabilities using the new transfromation method x dot product.
#ENDIF
#IF XBOX360
Do the same lighting technique but using the XBOX 360 Capabilities
#ENDIF
}
now its more optimised for the PS3 and not the Xbox360. The PS3 design hasnt pushed developers to abandon existing mathamatical techniques to do the same function, instead it pushed them to farm it off into a SPE etc.
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Well, it's not that simple, but let's say that it was. If you did that for a game like, Uncharted, you would have a game on the PS3 that looks a lot better then the same game on the 360. No one wants that. Microsoft doesn't, and the game manufacturers don't want it.
So, what you would get, was a game that looked like the 360 version on both platforms, and we would have never had the Uncharted we all know today.
I don't want to live in that world :)
